Govt pauses restart of world’s biggest nuclear plant

The restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant was suspended just hours after the process began, its operator said, but the reactor remained “stable”.

Operations to relaunch a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province, closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, began late Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator despite divided public opinion.